ogoftheskye

joined 1 year ago
[–] ogoftheskye@awful.systems 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They skim read some utilitarianism, which is a limited school of thought (if it has any value at all), and jumped straight to "fuck yes! This is everything!"

[–] ogoftheskye@awful.systems 10 points 11 months ago

People seldom go to the toilet in fiction, but especially not in utopian sci-fi. The rats, ironically, never factor in waste.

[–] ogoftheskye@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Has Yud done a really visible IDW-type thing yet? Pardon my ignorance if he hasn't, but he's ripe for a chat with Rogan, or a cosy armchair conflab with Peterson. He's heading into the right territory of self-contrived victim. And "Anyone who considers themselves remotely left-leaning ought not to fall for this shit!" should have Jimmy Dore salivating.

[–] ogoftheskye@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Can anyone tell me what the blue square in his username represents? If it does anything at all?

[–] ogoftheskye@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago

I'd never heard of Yudkowsky until a few months ago, until my brother ruined a dinner with doomerism dressed up as credible science, and I had to dig deep to discover the insidious bullshit. Big thanks to Timnit Gebru and Emile Torres on that front.

 

This is a slightly emotional response off the back of a discussion with a heavily TESCREAList family member recently. Which concluded with his belief there are a very small number of humans with incredible information processing abilities that know the real truth about humanity's future. He knows I hate Yudkowsky, I know he considers him one of the most important voices of our time. It's not fun listening to someone I love and value heading into borderline scientology territory. I kind of feel like, just with Peterson a few years ago, this is the next post-truth battle on our hands.

[–] ogoftheskye@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago

Singularity Sky would be ace on the big screen.... it would, until some rich Muskverse dude went and ruined it.

[–] ogoftheskye@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Noob here. Finding the aesthetics of LW interesting. White, serif fonts... purity, beautiful rational authority.